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Version:
Title: matconvert
Description: __matconvert__ belongs to {help rcall} package. It takes the 
name of a Stata matrix and returns a code for constructing the same matrix in R.
for more information visit [rcall homepage](http://www.haghish.com/packages/Rcall.php).
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/***
Example(s)
=================

    convert Stata matrix to R code
	
        {bf:. matrix A = (1,2\3,4)}
        {bf:. matconvert A}
        matrix(c(1,2,3,4), nrow=2, byrow = TRUE)

Author
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__E. F. Haghish__     
Center for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics     
University of Freiburg, Germany     
_and_        
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science       
University of Southern Denmark     
haghish@imbi.uni-freiburg.de     
      
[http://www.haghish.com/packages/Rcall.php](http://www.haghish.com/packages/Rcall.php)         
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***/

*cap prog drop matconvert
program matconvert, rclass

	//Get number of rows
	local row = rowsof(`0')
	local col = colsof(`0')
	
	//Get the names
	local rownames : rownames `0'
	local colnames : colnames `0'

	
	
	local data
	//extract the scalars
	forval i = 1/`row' {
		forval j = 1/`col' {
			
			//avoid the first comma
			if !missing("`data'") local data "`data',"
			*di `0'[`i',`j']
			*di `"`0'[`i',`j']"'
			local data : display "`data'" `0'[`i',`j']
		}
	}
	
	
	if !missing("`rownames'") | !missing("`colnames'") {
		local code : display "matrix(c(`data'), nrow=`row', byrow = TRUE, " ///
			"dimnames=list(unlist(strsplit("`"""' "`rownames'" ""  `"""' ", split=" `"""' " " `"""' ")), " ///
			"unlist(strsplit("`"""' "`colnames'" ""  `"""' ", split=" `"""' " " `"""' ")) ))"
	}
	else {
		local code "matrix(c(`data'), nrow=`row', byrow = TRUE)"
	}
	
	display as txt `"{p}`code'"'
	return local `0' "`code'"
end


// Create help file
// ============================================
* markdoc matconvert.ado, export(sthlp) replace

